Premiered by Tanztheater Wuppertal in 1987, Pina Bausch’s Ahnen is a production that is difficult to love even for a die-hard fan of the late, great German choreographer like me. My problem wasn’t so much the show’s length (nearly three and a half hours on opening night, including two intervals due

This new hour-long production comes from Circolombia, a troupe of graduates from Colombia’s national circus school Circo Para Todos (Circus For All). Many of its members were once considered disadvantaged and at risk. The 12-strong cast, including two female singers, are fit and alert; their

Founded in 2012 and hosted at Sadler’s Wells, the National Youth Dance Company keeps rolling along. Each year workshops are held across the UK, from which several dozen young people are chosen to form an ad hoc group that learns and performs a touring work by a high-profile choreographer selected

It’s impossible to say just what British dance would be like today without the influence of the American-born dancer-choreographer Robert Cohan, but it probably wouldn’t be as vital and varied. Spurred on in the late 1960s by Robin Howard, a dance-lover enamoured with the work of Martha Graham

It was shrewd of the Royal Ballet’s artistic director Kevin O’Hare to commission a world premiere from Hofesh Shechter, and bold of him to then sandwich it between masterworks by George Balanchine and Kenneth MacMillan. O’Hare’s unifying strategy was to program three pieces, each created by a

Shobana Jeyasingh is an extremely gifted choreographer and a long-time cultural interrogator. With this novel and typically tightly constructed take on the 19th-century classical ballet warhorse La Bayadère she reconfirms her status as one of the UK’s more stimulating artists. Lasting just under an

Fast approaching its 25th birthday, Candoco is the UK’s highest-profile integrated dance group — that is to say one composed of dancers who are both disabled and not. It was an inspired idea for this company to remount The Show Must Go On, the 2001 thinking person’s pop classic by the French

Dance took a back seat to music in this presentation by the second Buta Festival of Azerbaijani Arts, now coming to the end of five months of concerts, exhibitions, film screenings and theatre. Although the performance (seen for two nights only) was nominally headlined by the Azeri jazz pianist

Tamara Rojo, the star ballerina and savvy director of English National Ballet, continues to challenge the company with a triple bill that both honours contemporary ballet history and showcases her dancers. The programme, which inaugurates ENB’s tenure as an associate company of Sadler’s Wells

The greatest love story of all time” does not in this case translate into the greatest ballet of all time. But at least the creators of this stripped-back, amped-up retelling know pretty much what they’re doing. Trained in martial arts and classical dance, the director Rasta Thomas and his